TITLE: Analyzing Literature as a Mirror to a Shared Heritage
DIRECTIONS: Read the excerpt about "A Heritage of Smallness". Then, compare
and contrast Filipinos' ways of living then and now using the Venn diagram
below. If necessary, use a separate sheet for these activities.
Cont.
(4) Abroad, especially in the West, if you go out at seven in the moming, you're
doesn't begin 'till nine or ten - promptly at five P.M. By six, the business sections
are dead towns again. And entire cities goes to sleep on weekends. They have
shorter working day, a shorter working week. Yet they piled up more than we who
work all day and all week.
Source: An excerpt from Montage: An Anthology in Philippine Literature in
English
ACTIVITY 1
Past
Present
Then
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